MEDIA GUIDE CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS EVENT INFORMATION BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF 3 STATS, RECORDS & RESULTS FACT SHEET 4 JUNIOR MEN RECORDS 66 2021 WORLD JUNIORS QUALIFICATION 5 JUNIOR WOMEN RECORDS 73 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 6 MIXED DOUBLES WINNERS 80 2020 NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS ANNOUNCEMENT 7 NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS HISTORICAL RESULTS 80 NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS DRAW 9 PRACTICE SCHEDULE 10 AWARDS ALL-STAR TEAMS 81 MEN’S TEAM & PLAYER INFORMATION KEN WATSON SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD 84 MEN’S ROSTER 11 BALANCE PLUS FAIR PLAY AWARDS 85 MEN’S BIOS 12 ASHAM NATIONAL COACHING AWARD 86 ALBERTA 12 JOAN MEAD LEGACY AWARD 87 BRITISH COLUMBIA 1 14 BRITISH COLUMBIA 2 16 MANITOBA 1 17 MANITOBA 2 19 NEW BRUNSWICK 21 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR 23 NORTHERN ONTARIO 25 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES 27 NOVA SCOTIA 29 ONTARIO 31 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 32 QUEBEC 34 SASKATCHEWAN 36 WOMEN’S TEAM & PLAYER INFORMATION WOMEN’S ROSTER 38 WOMEN’S BIOS 39 ALBERTA 39 BRITISH COLUMBIA 41 MANITOBA 43 NEW BRUNSWICK 45 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR, 47 NORTHERN ONTARIO 49 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES 51 NOVA SCOTIA 53 NUNAVUT 55 ONTARIO 57 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 59 QUEBEC 61 SASKATCHEWAN 63 YUKON 64 CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 2 BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF CURLING CANADA 1660 Vimont Court Orléans, ON K4A 4J4 TEL: (613) 834-2076 FAX: (613) 834-0716 TOLL FREE: 1-800-550-2875 BOARD OF GOVERNORS John Shea, Chair Angela Hodgson, Governor Donna Krotz, Governor Amy Nixon, Governor George Cooke, Governor Cathy Dalziel, Governor Paul Addison, Governor Chana Martineau, Governor Sam Antila, Governor Mitch Minken, Governor NATIONAL STAFF Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer Louise Sauvé, Administrative Assistant Bill Merklinger, Executive Director, Corporate Services Jacob Ewing, Web Application Developer Gordon McNabb, General Manager, Event Operations Kim Warburton, Sales Account Manager Gerry Peckham, Director, High Performance Melissa Hicks, Sales Account Coordinator Danny Lamoureux, Director, Championship Services & Helen Radford, Manager, Program Development Youth Curling Club Development Feeder System Justin Perry, Director, Information Services & Technology Dixie Lorentz, Sponsor Fulfillment Al Cameron, Director, Communication & Media Relations Andy Henry, Manager, Marketing & Tickets Stephanie Carbonette, Comptroller Marcy Hrechkosy, Event Manager Brodie Bazinet, Foundation Manager Neil Houston, Event Manager Robyn Mattie, Manager, Curling Club Championship Terry Morris, Event Manager Karen Ryan, Executive Assistant Kyle Jahns, Manager, Communication & Media Relations JoAnne Viau, Coordinator, Financial Services Nolan Thiessen, Manager, Championship Services & Athlete Liaison Casey Sweeney, Coordinator, Financial Services Maddie Kelly, Marketing and Office Coordinator Louise Delorme, Coordinator, National Athlete Services & Donna Gillis, Marketing and Office Coordinator Coaching Rachel Delaney, Coordinator, Development & Championship Amanda MacKenzie, Marketing and Office Coordinator Services CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 3 FACT SHEET OFFICIAL NAME: New Holland Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships DATE/SITE: January 18-26, 2020 - George Preston Recreation Centre, Langley, B.C. FORMAT: By gender, the teams are seeded #1 through #14, based on the final standings in last year’s juniors at Prince Alberta, Sask., and then separated into two pools of seven each. Seeds 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 14 are in Pool A; Seeds 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 12 and 13 are in Pool B. The teams play a six-game round robin within each pool from Saturday, January 19 through Tuesday, January 22. The top four teams from each pool advance to the Championship Pool for each gender. Any ties for the last berth to the Championship Pool will be decided by a tiebreaker game(s) with the winner advancing to the Championship Pool while the loser moving to the Seeding Pool. In the Championship Pool the teams play four games against teams from the other preliminary round robin pool from Wednesday through Friday. The top three finishers, based on overall won-lost records (a total of 10 games), will qualify for the weekend playoffs. The first-place teams advance to their respective finals. The second and third place teams (after any required tiebreaker games) meet in semifinals on Saturday. The winners advance to their respective finals on Sunday. In the meantime, the six teams of each gender that did not qualify for the Championship Pool go to the Seeding Pool. The teams play the teams from the other pool in a three-game round robin starting Wednesday. Each team’s won-lost record is carried forward. At the conclusion of both the Championship Pool and Seeding Pool on Friday, the overall won-lost records of the non-playoff teams (each team will have played at least nine games) will be used for seeding purposes for the 2021 Canadian Juniors. The playoff teams will eventually be seeded #1 (gold medallist), #2 (silver medallist) and #3 (bronze medallist) for next year. Teams that do not qualify for the playoffs will be mixed to form mixed doubles teams for a 44-team single-elimination mixed doubles tournament on Saturday and Sunday. INTERNET: Draw results and event information can be obtained at: https://www.curling.ca/2020juniors/ TELEVISION: TSN, RDS2 (Men’s and women’s semifinals and finals) WINNERS EARN: Berth into the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships as Team Canada in Krasnoyarsk, Russia from Feb. 15-22 CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 4 HOW TEAMS QUALIFIED: Teams qualified through one of 14 provincial/territorial championships hosted across the country by their respective Member Associations. Yukon and Nunavut did not send a representative in the men’s competition, therefore the province hosting the national championship and last season’s winner were invited. Because British Columbia met both criteria, the second berth was provided to last season’s runner-up, Manitoba. EVENT OFFICIALS & CHIEF ICE TECHNICIAN Mike Merklinger GAME OFFICIALS Sharon Morrison PERSONNEL: CHIEF UMPIRE Patti Caldwell Ted Anderson DEPUTY CHIEF UMPIRE Marg White Vonda Hofferd CHIEF STATISTICIAN Debbie Hrynyk Andy Lessard Herb Wong Kathy MacKenzie Janie Hobart MEDIA CONTACTS: Al Cameron Director, Communication and Media Relations Curling Canada Cell: 403-463-5500 Kyle Jahns Manager, Communication and Media Relations Curling Canada Cell: 204-803-8221 CLICK HERE FOR: 2021 WORLD JUNIORS QUALIFICATION With the dates of the 2021 New Holland Canadian Juniors being shifted into March to allow junior-age players to compete longer into the season, players competing in Langley may be representing Canada at the 2021 World Juniors in February 2021 (location TBA by the World Curling Federation). Here are the criteria for determining the 2021 Team Canada representatives: • 2020 Canadian Juniors runner-up teams (if three of four are age eligible) will represent Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2021. If the runner-up team needs to replace one player because of age eligibility, consultation will take place with Curling Canada before a new team member is selected. • If a runner-up team is not age eligible to represent Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2021, then Curling Canada will select individual age-eligible athletes from the 2020 playoffs and/or Championship Pool to determine Team Canada for the World Junior Championships in 2021. Individual selected athletes may also be part of the 2020 winning Canadian team. • Curling Canada will announce the athletes selected to represent Canada at the 2021 World Junior Championships towards the end of February. CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 5 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All times PST. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 9 a.m. Practices begin 9 a.m. Draw #13 (tiebreakers, if necessary) 7:30 p.m. Team meeting SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 2 p.m. Draw #14 9 a.m. Draw #1 7 p.m. Draw #15 2 p.m. Draw #2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 9 a.m. Draw #16 7:30 p.m. Draw #3 SUNDAY, JANUARY 19 2 p.m. Draw #17 9 a.m. Draw #4 7 p.m. Draw #18 2 p.m. Draw #5 FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 7 p.m. Draw #6 9 a.m. Draw #19 MONDAY, JANUARY 20 2 p.m. Draw #20 9 a.m. Draw #7 SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 2 p.m. Draw #8 9 a.m. (all day) Mixed doubles 7 p.m. Draw #9 11 a.m. Women’s semifinal TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 4 p.m. Men’s semifinal 9 a.m. Draw #10 SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 2 p.m. Draw #11 9 a.m. Women’s final 7 p.m. Draw #12 Noon Mixed doubles semifinals 2 p.m. Mixed doubles medal games 2 p.m. Men’s final CURLING CANADA • NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS • MEDIA GUIDE 6 2018 HOME HARDWARE CANADA MEDIA RELEASE COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE CUP ANNOUNCEMENT 2020 NEW HOLLAND CANADIAN JUNIORS HEADED TO LANGLEY, B.C. One of Canada’s most accomplished Under-21 curlers will have the opportunity close out his junior career on home ice, it was announced today by Curling Canada. The 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships will be played Jan. 18-26 in Langley, B.C. Three-time Canadian junior men’s champion Tyler Tardi plays out of the Langley Curling Centre, which is located at the George Preston Recreation Centre — the host facility for the 2020 New Holland Canadian Juniors. “We’re still feeling the excitement of winning this year’s New Holland Canadian junior championship, and knowing that I’ll have the opportunity to compete next year on home ice is beyond a thrill,” said Tardi, who along with his vice-skip Sterling Middleton became the first curlers ever to win three Canadian junior championships by winning gold at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors in late January in Prince Albert, Sask. “The Langley Curling Centre is a superb facility, and I know it will be in first-class condition next year so that the competitors can show off their skills.” New Holland, a world leader in the manufacturing and selling of agricultural and construction equipment, will continue its support of junior curling as the title sponsor for the biggest national junior curling championship in the world.